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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: NICHOLSON, Hugh G.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 21, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 358
HUGH G. NICHOLSON, M.D., proprietor and managing head of the Barber
Sanitorium and Hospital at Charleston, W. Va., is a native of Warren county,
N. C. He acquired a high school education there and subsequently took his M.
D. degree from the University College of Medicine at Richmond, Va.,
graduating in the class of 1897. He afterwards took a post-graduate course
at the New York Polyclinic and since then has been an annual visitor and
attendant at Mayo's Clinic at Rochester, Minn. In 1898 he took the management
of the Sheltering Arms Hospital at Hansford, this county, an institution
established in 1886 and
conducted by the Diocese of West Virginia, of the Episcopal church, and which
is now one of the most complete hospitals in the state, com-paring favorably
with the best to be found in the country. He had much to do with esta~
lishing its enviable reputation, greatly promoting its efficiency, by
improving its equipment and service, and increasing the number of patients
three-fold. It is now in charge of Dr. J. Ross Hunter, a worthy successor of
our subject.
On leaving this institution in 1901, Dr. Nicholson engaged in medical
practice in the city of Charleston and continued thus engaged for some eight
years, building up a very successful practice. The Barber Sanitorium and
Hospital, of which he became proprietor in December, 1909, was established in
1904 by Dr. T. L. Barber and conducted by him until his death in 1910. It is
designed for the treat-ment of all kinds of drugless cases, including those
requiring treatment by the various kinds of baths, electricity, Pasteur
treatment and surgery. For these purposes it is admirably equipped with all
necessary apparatus, in the management of which the Doctor and his assistants
are thorough experts, possessing not merely the technical and manipulative
skill, but that higher knowledge necessary to successfully direct it. Under
Dr. Nicholson's management it is enhancing its reputation and increasing its
sphere of usefulness to a large extent. Dr. Nicholson is a member of the
county, state and national medical Associations. He is also a prominent
Mason, belonging to all the various branches of that order up to and
including Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Dr. Nicholson was married in Charleston to Miss Roberta Coleman, who was horn
in this city and acquired her education in Chicago, Ill. Her parents, Robert
A. and Nancy (Venable Noyes) Coleman, were natives and lifelong res-idents of
Kanawba county, Mr. Coleman being engaged in business in Charleston for many
years. Both died here. Dr. Nicholson and his wife are members of the First
Presbyterian church. They have two children, Hugh G. and Mildred.
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